On Wednesday, March 4, join Prof. Stuart Ford and the Louis L. Biro Law Library for lunch and a discussion on empirically determining the effectiveness of international criminal tribunals.

This discussion will be part of our Scholars & Students series. This series provides opportunities for you to get to know your professors in an informal setting and to learn what they are working on outside of the classroom.

You mean the Secretary of the Treasury isn’tMoe Money? Could have fooled me (Lowering the Bar)

]]>http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/03/02/detours-and-frolics-week-of-32/feed/0New York Times Online Now Available to JMLS Communityhttp://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/26/new-york-times-online-now-available-to-jmls-community/
http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/26/new-york-times-online-now-available-to-jmls-community/#commentsThu, 26 Feb 2015 16:19:33 +0000http://library.jmls.edu/blog/?p=1534Read more]]>The JMLS library has joined a consortium of law libraries to provide access to the New York Times online. Access is now available to current students as well as full time faculty and staff.

For more information, visit the reference desk during normal reference hours in person on the 6th floor, by phone at 312-427-2737 x729, by e-mail at library@jmls.edu, by text at 312-854-2752, or via chat from the library homepage.

We always want to do what we can to make sure your experience at the library is as pleasant and hassle-free as possible. To that end, the library has an online suggestion box that you can use to let us know what we can do, big or small, to improve your time in the library.

]]>http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/24/do-you-have-suggestions-for-us/feed/0Detours and Frolics: Week of 2/23http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/23/detours-and-frolics-week-of-223/
http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/23/detours-and-frolics-week-of-223/#commentsMon, 23 Feb 2015 19:25:51 +0000http://library.jmls.edu/blog/?p=1755Read more]]>What’s that? You say your eyeballs are frozen? Warm them up with the following selection of legal news and items of interest:

Update 2: The pro se litigant whose case the Supreme Court granted cert, who then disappeared, who then had his case dismissed, who then reappeared with Paul Clement as his attorney to petition the Court to take the case back on, has had that petition denied (WSJ Law Blog)

]]>http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/23/detours-and-frolics-week-of-223/feed/0Join Us for Lunch with Prof. Ginsberg on February 24http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/18/join-us-for-lunch-with-prof-ginsberg-on-february-24/
http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/18/join-us-for-lunch-with-prof-ginsberg-on-february-24/#commentsWed, 18 Feb 2015 22:29:11 +0000http://library.jmls.edu/blog/?p=1753Read more]]>Putting the Arbitration Agreement Before the Treatment

On Tuesday, February 24, join Prof. Marc Ginsberg and the Louis L. Biro Law Library for lunch and a discussion on the use of compulsory arbitration agreements in medical offices and the impact of that practice on informed consent.

This discussion will be part of our Scholars & Students series. This series provides opportunities for you to get to know your professors in an informal setting and to learn what they are working on outside of the classroom.

]]>http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/17/detours-and-frolics-week-of-216/feed/0Detours and Frolics: Week of 2/9http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/09/detours-and-frolics-week-of-29/
http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/09/detours-and-frolics-week-of-29/#commentsMon, 09 Feb 2015 22:09:02 +0000http://library.jmls.edu/blog/?p=1745Read more]]>It’s time to take your mind off the fact that the week’s just begun with legal news and curiosities!

Follow up: the pro se litigant who was granted cert then disappeared has reappeared, and he wants the Supreme Court to reinstate the case after dismissing it for lack of a response. Also, he’s no longer a pro se litigant. His attorney is Paul Clement, a former solicitor general (WSJ Law Blog)

The estate of George Patton, who has been dead for 69 years, is suing a video game developer on grounds of false endorsement. Because, you know, people might think that General Patton endorsed a game that was made nearly seven decades after his death (techdirt)

]]>http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/09/detours-and-frolics-week-of-29/feed/0Detours and Frolics: Week of 2/2http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/03/detours-and-frolics-week-of-22/
http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/03/detours-and-frolics-week-of-22/#commentsTue, 03 Feb 2015 18:26:51 +0000http://library.jmls.edu/blog/?p=1741Read more]]>Now that you’ve dug yourself a path out of your home and back to campus, take a breather and learn what’s been going on in the world:

The “Friendship Nine,” a group of civil rights protesters who were arrested while staging a sit-in at a South Carolina lunch counter, had their convictions vacated (Reuters)

]]>http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/02/03/detours-and-frolics-week-of-22/feed/0Detours and Frolics: Week of 1/26http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/01/27/detours-and-frolics-week-of-126/
http://library.jmls.edu/blog/2015/01/27/detours-and-frolics-week-of-126/#commentsTue, 27 Jan 2015 18:15:17 +0000http://library.jmls.edu/blog/?p=1736Read more]]>As you settle in to the groove of the semester, take a quick break and catch up on some recent legal news: